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Winner of the Evans Handcart Prize 2009. Winner of the Mormon History Assn Best Biography Award 2009. By the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes. When the federal government decided to open the reservation to white settlement, William H. Smart--a nineteenth-century Mormon traditionalist living in the twentieth century, a polygamist in an era when it was banned, a fervently moral stake president who as a youth had struggled mightily with his own sense of sinfulness, and an entrepreneurial businessman with theocratic, communal instincts--set out to ensure that the Uinta Basin also would be part of the Mormon kingdom. Included with the biography is a searchable CD containing William H. Smart's extensive journals, a monumental personal record of Mormondom and its transitional period from nineteenth-century cultural isolation into twentieth-century national integration.

Mormons -- Utah -- Biography. --- Smart, William H. (William Henry), 1862-1937. --- Utah -- History. --- Mormons --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Smart, William H. --- Utah --- History. --- Latter Day Saints --- Brighamite Mormons --- Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members --- Hedrikites --- Josephite Mormons --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members --- Reorganized Mormons --- RLDS Mormons --- Strangite Mormons --- Temple Lot Mormons --- Utah Mormons --- Christians

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These letters among two women and their husband offer a rare look into the personal dynamics of an LDS polygamous relationship. Abraham "Owen" Woodruff was a young Mormon apostle, the son of President Wilford Woodruff, remembered for the Woodruff Manifesto, which called for the divinely inspired termination of plural marriage. It eased a systematic federal judicial assault on Mormons and made Utah statehood possible. It did not end polygamy in the church. Some leaders continued to encourage and perform such marriages. Owen Woodruff himself contracted a secretive, second marriage to Ave--

Lambert, Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff, b. 1882 -- Correspondence. --- Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. --- Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church. --- Woodruff, Abraham Owen, 1872-1904 -- Correspondence. --- Woodruff, Helen May Winters, b. 1873 -- Correspondence. --- Polygamy --- Religion --- Christianity --- Philosophy & Religion --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- Religious aspects --- Mormon Church --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. --- Mormon Church. --- Woodruff, Abraham Owen, --- Woodruff, Helen May Winters, --- Lambert, Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff, --- Multiple marriage --- Plural marriage --- Clark, Eliza Avery, --- Woodruff, Avery, --- Woodruff, Eliza Avery Clark, --- Winters, Helen May, --- Woodruff, Owen, --- Marriage --- Non-monogamous relationships --- Latter Day Saint churches.

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Composed over several decades, the essays here are remarkably fresh and relevant. They offer instruction for the student just beginning the study of folklore as well as repeated value for the many established scholars who continue to wrestle with issues that Wilson has addressed. As his work has long offered insight on critical mattersn--nationalism, genre, belief, the relationship of folklore to other disciplines in the humanities and arts, the currency of legend, the significance of humor as a cultural expression, and so forth--so his recent writing, in its reflexive approach to narrative and storytelling, illuminates today's paradigms. Its notable autobiographical dimension, long an element of Wilson's work, employs family and local lore to draw conclusions of more universal significance. Another way to think of it is that newer folklorists are catching up with Wilson and what he has been about for some time.As a body, Wilson's essays develop related topics and connected themes. This collection organizes them in three coherent parts. The first examines the importance of folklore. What it is and its value in various contexts. Part two, drawing especially on the experience of Finland, considers the role of folklore in national identity, including both how it helps define and sustain identity and the less savory ways it may be used for the sake of nationalistic ideology. Part three, based in large part on Wilson's extensive work in Mormon folklore, which is the most important in that area since that of Austin and Alta Fife, looks at religious cultural expressions and outsider perceptions of them and, again, at how identity is shaped, by religious belief, experience, and participation; by the stories about them; and by the many other expressive parts of life encountered daily in a culture. Each essay is introduced by a well-known folklorist who discusses the influence of Wilson's scholarship. These include Richard Bauman, Margaret Brady, Simon Bronner, Elliott Oring, Henry Glassie, David Hufford, Michael Owen Jones, and Beverly Stoeltje.In these essays William Wilson illuminates folklore theory and practice, romantic nationalism, religious folklore, personal narrative, and much else. Each essay is introduced by a notable fellow folklorist, among them Richard Bauman, Margaret K. Brady, Simon J. Bronner, Henry Glassie, David J. Hufford, Michael Owen Jones, Elliott Oring, Steve Siporin, David Stanley, Beverly Stoeltje, and Jacqueline S. Thursby.

Folklore and nationalism. --- National characteristics. --- Folklore --- Mormons --- Latter-Day Saints --- Characteristics, National --- Identity, National --- Images, National --- National identity --- National images --- National psychology --- Psychology, National --- Folk-lore and nationalism --- Nationalism and folklore --- Folklore. --- Mormon Church --- Anthropology --- Nationalism --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Ethnopsychology --- Exceptionalism --- Christians --- Latter Day Saints --- Brighamite Mormons --- Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members --- Hedrikites --- Josephite Mormons --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members --- Reorganized Mormons --- RLDS Mormons --- Strangite Mormons --- Temple Lot Mormons --- Utah Mormons

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A collection of narratives, humorous stories, and songs from Mormon missionaries that has become a classic study of narrative folklore. The 64th annual Faculty Honor Lecture, in the Humanities, Utah State University.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Missions. --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. --- Missionaries -- United States. --- Mormon Church -- Missions. --- Mormon Church --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- Biserica lui Isus Hristos a Sfinților din Zilele din Urmă --- Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints --- Cerkev Jezusa Kristusa svetih iz poslednjih dni --- Chiesa di Gesù Cristo dei Santi degli Ultimi Giorni --- Crkva Isusa Krista Svetaca Posljednjih Dana --- Cirkev Jez̆is̆a Krista Svätých neskors̆ích dní --- Církev Jez̆ís̆e Krista Svatých posledních dnů --- Església de Jesucrist dels Sants dels Darrers Dies --- Église de Jésus-Christ des Saints des Derniers Jours --- Ekklēsia tou Iēsou Christou tōn Agiōn tōn Teleutaiōn Ēmerōn --- Esucristo ittoed nega esordamar napi puguad onosa --- Gereja Yesus Kristus Dari Orang-Orang Suci Zaman Akhir --- Giáo hội các thánh hữu ngày sau của Chúa Giê su Ky tô --- Hisus Kʻristosěn Akhěr-Kiwnlēr Mugattēslēri Kʻilisēsi --- Hisus Kʻristosi Verjin-Awur Srbotsʻ Ekeghetsʻi --- Hisus Kʻristosi Verjin Ōreri Srberi Ekeghetsʻi --- Hisus Kʻristosi Verjin Ōreri Srberi Ekeghetsʻu koghmitsʻ --- Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días --- Igreja de Jesus Cristo dos Santos dos Últimos Dias --- Iyēcu Kiristuvin̲ Tiruccapai --- Jesu Kristi kirke af sidste dages hellige --- Jesu Kristi kirke av siste dagers hellige --- Jesu Kristi Kyrka av Sista Dagars Heliga --- Jesus Christ N'ascr a Cwc Hc Ma Ekyrmba Ahotseweelfo --- Jesucriston Khep Khepürunacanquiri Kollananac Tamapan mistuyata --- Kanīsat Yasūʻ al-Masīḥ li-Qiddīsī al-Ayyām al-Akhīrah --- Kerk van Jesus Christus van die Heiliges van die Laaste Dae --- Kerk Van Jezus Christus Van De Heiligen Der Laatste Dagen --- Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage --- Kirkja Jesú Krists hinna Síđari daga heilögu --- Kisha e Jezu Krishtit e Shenjtorëve të Ditëve të Mëvonshme --- Kościół Jezusa Chrystusa Świętych w Dniach Ostatnich --- LDS Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) --- Myöhempien Aikojen Pyhien Jeesuksen Kristuksen Kirkko --- Pēdējo Dienu Svēto Jēzus Kristus Baznīca --- Ri Ruk'ataj ri Jesucristo quichin ri Chojlaxela' chupan ri ruq'uisibel tak K'ij --- Simbahan ni Jésukristo sa mga Santos sa Ulahing mga Adlaw --- T︠s︡ŭrkvata na Isus Khristos na svetiite ot poslednite dni --- Utolsó Napok Szentjeinek Jézus Krisztus Egyháza --- Viimse Aja Pühade Jeesuse Kristuse Kirik --- Εκκλησία του Ιησού Χριστού των Αγίων των Τελευταίων Ημερών --- كنيسة يسوع المسيح لقديسي الأيام الأخيرة --- Церкви Иисуса Христа Святых последних дней --- Церкви Ісуса Христа Святих Останніх Днів --- 耶穌基督末世聖徒教會 --- 耶蘇基督末世聖徒教會 --- 末日聖徒イエス・キリスト教会 --- Esu̇s Khristiĭn Khozhmyn U̇eiĭn Gėgėėntnu̇u̇diĭn Su̇m --- Missionaries --- Missions. --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints --- Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonites) --- Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) --- Simbahan ni Jesucristo sang mga Santos sa Ulihing mga Adlaw --- Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) --- Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) --- Unified Church School System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Patience Loader has become an icon for the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies, who traveled the Mormon Trail in the 1850s. Her autobiography offers an important record of those events, but also of much more. Wife of a Civil War soldier, Patience served as an army laundress in Washington DC and ran a boarding house as well. After the war, her husband died of consumption, and Patience returned to Utah alone, where she became a cook in a mining camp.

Archer, Patience Loader. --- Edward Martin Emigrating Company. --- Mormon women - England. --- Mormon women - United States. --- Mormons - Emigration and immigration. --- Mormon women --- Mormons --- Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration and immigration. --- Archer, Patience Loader, --- Utah Expedition --- Women, Mormon --- Loader, Patience, --- Martin Emigrating Company --- Martin Handcart Company --- Utah War --- Utah Campaign --- Buchanan's Blunder --- Mormon War --- Mormon Rebellion --- Mormon Expedition --- Latter-Day Saints --- Mormon Church --- Christian women --- Martin Company (Mormon pioneers) --- Christians --- Latter Day Saints --- Latter Day Saint women --- Brighamite Mormons --- Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members --- Hedrikites --- Josephite Mormons --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members --- Reorganized Mormons --- RLDS Mormons --- Strangite Mormons --- Temple Lot Mormons --- Utah Mormons